Carson right to question IRS motives

Having read two of Dr. Ben Carson's books and seen him on television on many occasions, I find it hard to believe that his concerns about the Internal Revenue Service audit emanate from feelings of self-importance ("Ben Carson says he was targeted by IRS over his beliefs," Oct. 3). His career has served as an inspiration to many, not a demonstration of egotism.

I am a 50-something, Jesuit-educated, Libertarian-leaning registered Democrat who has been reading Thomas F. Schaller's column for years. He has the luxury of at least being accepted around liberals and only being castigated by conservatives. Libertarian thinkers eventually are attacked by both...

Thomas Schaller makes a strong case that Dr. Ben Carson should stick to medicine ("Carson should stick to medicine," Feb. 3). Mr. Schaller did not need to stray far for evidence: He cites Dr. Carson's own public pronouncements for curing the nation's ills, namely, his call for a flat tax...

How can columnist Thomas F. Schaller compare Michael Jordan trying to hit a 95-mph fastball to Ben Carson being president of the United States? Is he saying a community organizer was more prepared to be president than Dr. Carson ("Ben Carson should stick to medicine," Feb. 3)?

I find it interesting that columnist Thomas F. Schaller can champion our "community organizer" president as all-knowing, intelligent and, of all things, competent, yet Ben Carson, a world-renowned brain surgeon and Herman Cain, a very successful business owner, don't have the ability to be...

Thomas F. Schaller's analogy comparing Michael Jordan's attempt to play baseball to Ben Carson's qualifications to be president is asinine ("Carson, stick to medicine," Feb. 4). Why don't we just expand that assertion to dissuade political science teachers from becoming newspaper columnists?

Columnist Thomas F. Schaller makes reference to some prominent individuals who failed to succeed in business, but he may be too young to remember that a shopkeeper named Harry S. Truman defeated a favored Republican, Thomas E. Dewey, in 1946 ("Ben Carson should stick to medicine," Feb. 3).

Thomas F. Schaller's piece on Ben Carson is nothing more than an ad hominem attack, an attack more appropriate to a blog from the fever swamps of the ideological left than a nationally-recognized newspaper ("Carson, stick to medicine," Feb. 4). Frank Kent has to be spinning in his grave.